TEXAS83

I heard about this and forgot to inquire before i bought. Not that I would use this like crazy, just want to know my car. Does it have it in the 02? if so, how do you turn it on?

---UPDATE---

well, it was raining today and i found myself constantly adjusting the windshield wipers, i have a habit of getting quickly annoyed by that dry swishing sounds against my windshield when there's not enough rain. Anyways, theres a little feature built it to the wipers thats not that amazing, but it cool to know about.

So, you know there's 3 different speeds you can set the wipers to:

1) intermittent adjustable
2) medium pace
3) very fast

Well, if you're driving and you have it set at position 2, and then you come to a stop, the wipers automatically switch to slow intermittent speed. Then, when you accelerate again, the wipers increase speed back to medium pace automatically. This function only works in position 2, so if you have the wipers set to very fast pace, they will continue that way whether you stop or not.

So, i guess the SC doesn't have rain sensing wipers, better put, it has speed sensing wipers!

Pearlpower

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Hi there, not sure what year if any, but the 02 models do not have these.
Lee

tfischer

The '02 does not have "rain sensing wipers."

I've been driving one for over five years, and, among all the other things I have to do while driving, I have to be able to sense the rain myself and tug on the stalk to get the wipers to operate. The wipers themselves have no idea it's raining.

I hate living like this.

Gojirra99

Even my 03 does not have it, I am not 100% sure about the 06.

rominl

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i am 100% sure 05 doesn't have it

i even doubt that for the 06, but not 100%. didn't read spec

rominl

iTrader: (4)

looking at lexus.com library, doesn't seem like so

IcEnPinKi

iTrader: (1)

Kinda weird since my 03 ES had it but my SC doesnt. you'd figure a top notch car like the SC would have it all.

tfischer

Maybe it's the drivers of the SC who are top notch enough to know when it's raining all by themselves, and they can sense rain in the usual way.

JCtx

Okay, '02s, '03s, '05s and '06s don't have rain-sensing wipers. Well, you should have bought an '04; MINE DOES.
Ha ha ha. Just kidding. I have that on my other car, and honestly, it's crap. Until it gets much 'smarter' than it is now, you're better off doing the sensing yourself. Good day.

rominl

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haven't owned any car with it so don't know how it exactly works and how good / sensitive it is. but i agree, even if i have it i probably don't want to use it. in general i try not to use wipers unless it's absolutely necessary

Pearlpower

iTrader: (2)

I think this would be useful for convertibles so that it closes the top automatically while parked once rain is sensed. I believe other makes have this feature. But then out in California once has ample warning of rain.
Lee

hipendicul

I don't think they will allow this here in the gool 'ol US of Law suits A. Toyota of USA won't even let you roll up your windows with the key fob because of safety reasons (like a kid is hanging out the window), imagine what would happen if the car raised the roof and someone was in the way. But i saw in the Cbest settings that in places other than the US, you can roll up the windows with the key fob, so who knows..

But my parents 745I has rain sensing wipers. At first I thought it was retarded. How hard is it to turn on and off the wipers? But then I found the little thumb **** on the wiper stalk. You can adjust how much water (rain) you can have on the windshield before it wipes. Think of it as constanly varible wipers and its the greatest thing. You stop, it stops until it needs to wipe. You drive faster and it will always wipe when you need it. It kept me from always fiddling with the wiper setting (I use the wipers as little as possible). I'm not saying that I have to have it, but I wouldn't mind having it.

Laters
Ken 02 SC430
99 R6

tfischer

The whole concept seemed silly to me, as I have noted above, but that option was on my recently purchased '04 RX330, although I did not even know it was there for several days, since the salesman did not mention it and it's hardly obvious to the casual observer -- and I was checking out important stuff at the time.

After a few months, my reaction is that it's not all that bad in most circumstances. The auto feature actually replaces the "intermittant" setting, and the speed of the wipers changes in accordance to the amount of rain falling on the windshield. (An IR beam is directed at the inside of the window, and the volume of rain is related to the amount of distortion in the reflected IR beam.) However, in very light rain, they are a little late to come on.

All in all, it's a cute idea, and it's moderately handy to have the speed of the wipers vary with the volume of the downpour, but I could do that myself. I would not care if any car I buy has this "feature" or not.

TEXAS83

check out the update up top!

JCtx

Didn't know that feature on your 'update'; kewl.
The feature I use the most is to just push down on the wiper stalk, and they swipe once. It rarely is hard enough to need position '2', but next time will try your find . Later.